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Re: NDAA passed: Internet and Online Streaming Services Emergency Alert Study


From: Michael Thomas <mike () mtcc com>
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2021 12:50:13 -0800


On 1/2/21 12:40 PM, Sabri Berisha wrote:
----- On Jan 1, 2021, at 2:12 PM, Matt Hoppes mattlists () rivervalleyinternet net wrote:

Hi,

How would that even work?  Force a pop up into web traffic?  What if the end
users is using an app on a phone?
Most, if not all, mobile devices connected to cellular already have that option. On
my iphone it's under settings->notifications->government alerts. There are three
separate options: Amber alerts, Emergency alerts, and Public Safety alerts.
I wonder if that is wired in with the earthquake alerts i think you can get these days.

Personally, I have all three turned off after receiving nonsens alerts. Amber alerts
for children abducted in Los Angeles, only 600km (~450 miles) from the Bay Area,
where I live, for example. Or a "public safety" alert telling me that there are
too many people in the local Trader Joe's, 2 miles from my home.

Aliens always invade New York, so I'm safe up here :)

I beg your pardon, they have a bizarre fascination with Golden Gate Bridge. It's the oversized monkeys that like New York.

Mike


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